FROM BROCKENHURST TO LYMINGTON AND BOLDRE. 71 



with, the mellowing bindweed leaves, Tormentil 

 and Thistle, flowering Wild Mint and the ever- 

 present Bramble with red, purple, and deep-green 

 leaves and purple stems. Late flowers of Bramble 

 contrast with the red and black fruit of the same 

 shrubs, and the maple leaves, so various in 

 colour, here redden, whilst the hawthorn berries 

 encrimson the hedgebanks. 



We soon leave our level way in the valley, and 

 the sight of the river-banks, and turn to the right 

 into the ascending course of a lane skirting, on 

 the left-hand side of the way, an upland park. 

 As we near the wooded crest of this slope, the 

 lower part of which runs down to the river 

 margin, we get a pretty peep of scenery over the 

 hedgebank, down into the valley of the Lyming- 

 ton River, and of Boldre y Byldwr of the Keltic 

 (the full stream) and Bovre of Domesday crown- 

 ing the uplands beyond the trees which stud the 

 meadow that forms the foreground of the land- 

 scape being richly dressed in autumnal colours, 

 red, golden, brown, and green. At the top of 

 the hill, on the left-hand side of the way, is 

 Yicar's Hill House, and on the right-hand side 



